Re: [SQL] Generating a range of integers in a query

2005-07-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 04:13, Aaron Bingham wrote: > Hello, > > I've got an interesting problem: I need to select all possible values > of an attribute that do /not/ occur in the database. > > This would be easy (in my case at least) if there were a way to > generate a table containing all integer

Re: [SQL] Generating a range of integers in a query

2005-07-13 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
I use the following function which returns a date series. You can modify it to return an int series instead create or replace function alldates(date,date) returns setof date as ' declare s alias for $1; e alias for $2; d date; begin d := s; while d <= e

Re: [SQL] Generating a range of integers in a query

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jul 13, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Aaron Bingham wrote: This would be easy (in my case at least) if there were a way to generate a table containing all integers between 1 and n, where n is the result of a subquery. In my case, n will be at most a few hundred. I would like to be able to generate thi